It's Aesop's fable of the Lion and the Mouse; this time, the mouse returns the favor when the lion is confronted by a pit-helmeted hunter with an automatic weapon and his spear-wielding bearers in this old-fashioned but high-speed Terrytoon.
This was the sort of cartoon that Paul Terry and his staff had been turning out, with incremental technical improvements, since Terry was first working for van Beuren (and maybe before at Bray). With this one, the changes are those of story-telling and pacing, as director Mannie Davis uses a more polished and fluid style of movement, better and more varied voice actors and nice coordination of sound effects and Phili Scheib's musical score. I would award it a higher score except that I've already seen earlier versions from Terry; he seemed to redo them every couple of years. We'll see what improvements the 1940 shows.
This was the sort of cartoon that Paul Terry and his staff had been turning out, with incremental technical improvements, since Terry was first working for van Beuren (and maybe before at Bray). With this one, the changes are those of story-telling and pacing, as director Mannie Davis uses a more polished and fluid style of movement, better and more varied voice actors and nice coordination of sound effects and Phili Scheib's musical score. I would award it a higher score except that I've already seen earlier versions from Terry; he seemed to redo them every couple of years. We'll see what improvements the 1940 shows.